18 April 2013

Review: Scott Pilgrim in his Finest Hour by Bryan Lee O'Malley

Comic digest, 247 pages
Published 2010
Acquired January 2012
Read September 2012
Scott Pilgrim in his Finest Hour
by Bryan Lee O'Malley

Contrary to what the whole Internet seems to think, this book is called Scott Pilgrim in his Finest Hour according to the title page, not Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour. (Worldcat gets it right, of course. Go librarians.) This is the complicatedest of the Scott Pilgrim books, and though I can't quite parse the metaphorical significance of what happens as well as I could in the previous volumes, everything explodes nicely in the end. There's a lot of good stuff here; "IT WAS HORRIBLE FOR EVERYONE AND THAT INCLUDES YOU" is probably one of the best medium-based gags the series does, and those last few pages are great.

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